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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
13 Amendment | abolished slavery |
Black codes | laws by the South before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African Americans men the right to vote. No former Confederate leaders can hold or vote. Made by US Congress |
Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It built hospitals and schools. |
carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
scalawags | Southerners who support Reconstuction |
14 Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the Right to equal protection under law |
15 Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
segregation | separation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
involuntary servitude | having to serve not by one's own choice, slavery |
deprive | to remove or taken away |
special privileges | immunities, being allowed to do something others are not |
area of control | jurisdiction, where one has influence |